Back in '01 I had a third degree A-C separation in my left shoulder, thanks to an "improper right turn" by a pickup truck. Doc said it was a coin-toss as far as surgery, and surgery didn't have a good track record for actually improving things. So I elected not to go under the knife. Recovery was uncomfortably slow (typical for soft-tissue injuries), and that shoulder will never be 100%, but it works well enough. I'm confident I made the right choice.

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